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    Car ID

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    In American Graffiti, Curt Henderson (Richard Dreyfuss) drove one. The actual car was a '67 model, but the movie was set in 1962. Oops!

    Driver training simulator. Steering wheel and instrument cluster. 60s-70s Mopar?

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    On 4/6/2024 at 4:32 PM, JoeShmoe said:

    Gotta be Mopar! Clutch pedal with an automatic????

    Notice the clip, just above the clutch pedal arm?  In the simulator I "learned" on in about 1980, they were "automatics."  Then, at the end of the course, they said if we wanted to try a manual transmission, reach up under the dash an pull down the clutch pedal.  This also unlocked the console shift stalk, from straight forward/back shifting to a gated manual shifter.  Cool.  I had already been driving a manual (only) car for two years.  I'll show my classmates how good I am.  Every time I accelerated and let out the clutch, the simulator said I blew the engine, and red lights came on! HA!

    Anyway, that's why you see a clutch with an automatic column shifter.  Although on this one pictured, does it change it to a three-on-the-tree? 🤪

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    1966-1967 slide of an International Harvester...what?

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    2 hours ago, 58L-Y8 said:

    The International Harvester is an R-Series, perhaps an R-110 pickup. Iirc, the R-Series was 1954-'56.

    The IHC is an R-series which ran from 53-55.  56 was an S-series with different front end.

     

    No mention of the amazing Studebaker?  1953 K-body Champion Starliner hardtop convertible coupe.  (Good thing it wasn't the C-body Starlight pillared coupe.  Try to explain that one! 😆)

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    Identify car in 1926 silent movie The Boob.

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    6 hours ago, Cole motor car lover said:

    Anytime thank you for sharing this with the forum truly made my day! And I believe you said this had a golf bag door on the passenger side if so that is another give away to me as they added that in 1922 as standard. I’m gonna watch this movie later this week with my fiancé so I’m very excited to see it in the movie and thank you again for sharing as I would have not known of this movie otherwise! I hope you have a blessed rest of your week:)! 

    I would like to see the reaction when you tell your fiance' you're going to watch a movie called The Boob. 😉

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    What's that car?

    in What is it?

    Posted · Edited by KURTRUK (see edit history)

    On 3/25/2024 at 7:50 AM, Barney Eaton said:

    I have visited lots of car museums and have never seen one of these Checkers.  The Truck and auto museum in Auburn Indiana has several later Checkers.   Other museums might have one in their collection but they were not on display when I visited.

    There is only one known to exist!

    Door glass

    in What is it?

    Posted · Edited by KURTRUK (see edit history)

    This is a question for anybody:  When did Chrysler start using the Pentastar logo(so I know what era to search)?

     

    EDIT: OK, I googled it. Pentastar started in 1962.  I'll search from there.

     

    BTW: Is this a matched pair, IE: Left and Right?

    RIP Marcello Gandini 1938-2024, one of the greatest car designers of all time

    in In Memoriam...

    Posted · Edited by KURTRUK (see edit history)

    I owned an X1/9.  While it was fun when it ran (Fix It Again, Tony), the packaging was impeccable.  I'm 6'2" and it was a comfortable fit.  What is now called a frunk, the front trunk held four bags of groceries, and if you stored the targa top there, you didn't lose more than 2 inches of storage space.  Plus, there was a rear trunk as well.  Not nearly the size of the front, but still another storage space, all in this tiny car, 46 1/2" tall.

    Please help ID early hearse

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    On 9/5/2018 at 12:01 PM, pcolleary said:

    Hi,

     

    If anybody has an idea on the year and brand I would be grateful. They have it marked as a odelM T but I am pretty sure that's wrong.

     

    Thanks.

     

    Pat

     

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    ...and I wouldn't trust a "Journalist" who can't correctly spell "hearse."

    What is the story behind your “handle”?

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    When I was a wee kid, about 3 or 4 years old, an older couple at our church in Modesto, California, name Harold and Alice Coverley would kiddingly call me Truk (my name spelled backwards). Fast forward 15 years.  Bought my first (project) vehicle, a 1955 Dodge pickup, model C3-B8-108.  California had personalized license plates available for an annual fee.  I think my last name was already taken, so I had to come up with something else.  Harkening back to childhood, I remembered the Coverleys calling me Truk.  Perfect. Kurtruk is a Palindrome.  It is a word that reads the same forwards and backwards.  This plate was available.  So I have an original Yellow on Blue California license plate with that on it.  Had it on my Dodge truck for the short time it was driveable.  The bad news is, if you don't renew it every year, when you do want to make it current again, all the back fees are due!  That's 40 years. SO I'd like to put it on my 1955 Studebaker E12 pickup I own now but the fees would cost more than the truck is worth, probably. Thanks California.  So it hangs on the back of a door somewhere, not exactly sure where right now.  In the 1980s when I had my Dodge, one popular thing to do was have a smooth tailgate and put a mural or the name of your vehicle on it.  Always wanted to come up with a stylized logo with KURTRUK on it, with the first KUR reversed, so it was still readable, but a mirror image of the last part of the name.

     

    Side Note: The Coverleys owned Burges Drive-In in Modesto when one George Lucas was cruisin' around in his formative years.  Mel's Drive-in in American Graffiti substituted for Burges since Burges no longer existed when filming the movie.  Mel's scenes were shot in San Francisco, I believe.

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